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Section 18-99.5. Signs required. The mass transit agency shall require the conspicuous display within each County transit bus, vehicle and facility a sign clearly setting forth all of the prohibitions of Section 18-99.3. Section 18-99.6. Removal or defacing of signs. No person shall remove or deface signs required to be erected by or under the authority of this article. Section 18-99.7. Non transference of bus pass and identification card. (a) Any bus pass or identification card issued under sections 18-90 and 18-95 is nontransferable and shall not be used by any person other than by the person to whomit was issued. No person shall obtain or attempt to obtain a bus pass or identification card issuable under sections 18-90 and 18-95 based on a false application or certification. No person shall alter a bus pass or identification card issued under sections 18-90 and 18- 95, unless authorized by the mass transit agency. In addition to the penaltyunder subsection (b), any person who is issued such a bus pass or identification card based upon a false application/certification, who knowingly permits another to use the bus pass or identification card, or who alters,without authorization from the mass transit agency, the person's bus pass or identification card shall be penalized by having the person's bus pass or identification card immediately revoked and shall be prohibited from obtaining a bus pass or identification card for a period of one year from the date of conviction. (b) The following persons shall be in violation of this section, and if convicted, be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00): (1) Any person who knowingly uses a bus pass or identification card issued to another under section 18-90 and 18-95. (2) Any person to whom a bus pass or identification card has been issued under sections 18-90 and 18-95, who knowingly permits another to use that bus pass or identification card; (3) Any person who obtains or attempts to obtain a bus pass or identification card issuable under sections 18-90 and 18-95 based upon a false application or certification; or (4) Any person who alters a bus pass or identification card issued under sections 18-90 and 18-95 without prior authorization from the mass transit agency. Section 18-99.8. Penalty for counterfeiting or using counterfeit tokens, passes, coupons, or approved cards. Any person who makes or issues any imitation or counterfeit of a bus token, passes, coupon, or approved card, or knowingly uses such imitation or counterfeit token, passes, coupon, or approved card for bus fare shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not more than $2,000.00 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. Section 18-99.9. Penalty. (a) Any person violating section 18-99.3 or aiding, abetting, or assisting in any manner whatsoever another person in violating any of such provisions shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in an amount not exceeding $500.00 or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding five days or be both so fined and imprisoned. (b) Each day a violation is committed or permitted to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall bepunishable as such under this section. (c) Any authorized police officer, upon arresting a person for a violation of this division, shall take the name and address of the alleged violator and shall issue thereto in writing a summons or citation hereinafter described, notifying such person to answer to the complaint to be entered against such person at a place and at a time provided in the summons or citation, except that the officer may make a physical arrest in instances when: (1) The alleged violator refuses to provide the officer with such person's name and address or any proofthereof as may be reasonably available to the alleged violator; (2) The alleged violator fails or refuses to immediately cease and desist from such 18-35 SUPP. 1 (1-2017)